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By Sandeep Jauhar
299 pp, $25
New York, NY, Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-3741-4659-4

JAMA. 2008;300(10):1212-1213.

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More than 40 years ago, a brave young physician challenged the "enforced secrecy" of medical training by publishing a firsthand account of his internship. Under the pseudonym "Dr X," he titled his account simply Intern.¹ The book was wildly successful but, perhaps more importantly, it opened the door for future authors to share their insights about their medical training and education.

In the subsequent decades, a half-dozen different narrative books on internship were published.^2-6 Today, there are nearly 40 firsthand accounts of the medical sojourn from medical school to residency in nearly every major specialty—enough to define the small but important genre of physician-training narratives.⁷ Several classic themes can be found in each of these narratives: critical candor of the training process, personal growth, and the change in perspective regarding the practice and profession of medicine, accompanied by the intimate accounts of patient encounters and patient-physician relationships.

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S. Ryan Gregory, MD, MA, Reviewer
Department of Medicine and Health Policy
George Washington University
Washington, DC
gregory@gwu.edu

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